Susan dreamed her cousin Bob was driving his little red sports car and she was in the passenger seat. ​Now, for some strange reason, it was Susan that was driving. Suddenly, out of nowhere, another car appeared in her lane, headed straight for her. ​She tried to swerve and miss it, but...BAM! A head-on collision.

What Car-Accident Dreams Mean

Dreams like this are very common, and often we think the dream is warning us of an impending disaster. Perhaps, at rare times, it is; however, usually these dreams aren't a crystal ball into your future. Instead, they're honing in on an event that happened to you in real life the day you had the dream.

The first and easiest key to understand the Lord's message in these dreams is identify the symbolic meaning of the people in the dream.

The correct meaning will be something you have in common with the person in the dream. For example from Susan's dream, her cousin Bob has anger issues in real life. Just that day, Susan had lost her temper during an argument. Anger is what they have in common right now; therefore, in Susan's dream, Bob represents anger. ​

A car can represent your attitude.

A car can represent your attitude, motives, intentions; or a part of your life, such as your work or ministry (a symbol dictionary and symbol roots are included in Dream Interpretation Toolkit). A head-on collision means you had a confrontation with another person that day. In the dream example above, the red car symbolized anger. It doesn't matter if Bob actually has a red car in real life, or even if Susan does. The Lord can use your real car or a "dream car" as a symbol; the meaning will be the same or similar.​>> Read more on colors in dreams.

Susan, if you remember, was the passenger in the beginning of the dream, and Bob was driving. Let's look at it this way: Anger was driving the situation. Susan was just sort of "there". But it changed, and now Susan was sitting in the driver's seat. She had come into agreement with anger and the two had merged.

The dream's scene then changed, and another car appeared in her lane, heading straight for her. In reality, the person that confronted her seemed to have a sudden issue and it came quickly and unexpectedly. Susan had tried to avert the confrontation (she swerved) but found herself unable to do so, and the two had an argument (head-on collision).

Many dreams are given to deal with our heart issues.

Why We Have These Types of Dreams

​Dreams are a method of personal communication from the Lord to each of us. One of the main reasons He gives us dreams is to prod us to take a good look at the issues in our hearts. He wants our hearts clean, and free from anger and arguments. Even though we all deal with anger, and we certainly have confrontations, the points of this dream are: 1) to remind us to give our issues to the Lord and get healing and deliverance from them, and 2) to repent, forgive, and guard our hearts.

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Sweet dreams!​ Sylvia

Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows the issues of life. -- Proverbs 4:23